Leaders Should Be Cool, Not Cold.
No one is perfect and neither is their leadership style or ability. Becoming a strong leader is something one can learn and even improve if they think they are lacking in certain areas. Leadership role is a never ending process of self analysis and self improvement.
Leadership Strength comes from understanding the leadership principles, and then executing them successfully. The greatest opportunity for leaders to learn, grow and development comes less from successes and more from hardships, failures, and career setbacks. Great leaders are people who look at challenges as opportunities to grow, to change, and to learn from their mistakes.
About The Author
Little Book of Leadership is written by Jeffrey Gitomer. He has written eleven bestselling business books on the subjects of sales, loyalty, attitude, networking, business social media, and leadership. Jeffrey gives over 200 presentations a year, writes a weekly column that reaches more than four million readers. He is inducted into the National Speaker Association's Speaker Hall of Fame.
About The Book
The Little Book of Leadership is published by Wiley India Pvt Ltd. The 222 pages book combines classic style and practical application in a single package. This is a truly fresh and innovative approach. This book provides a comprehensive description of Leadership as well as an in-depth Development Guide for leaders who wish to take their leadership to new levels. It is a complete guide for leadership development.
The Little Book of Leadership has 13 chapters which contains practical suggestions, ideas & answers for every challenge.
1. Leadership Insight
A leader must earn, not command, both trust & respect. It is important to know that these attributes are not earned in a day; they are earned by words, actions & deeds, day by day. Leadership Insight is all about implement strategies that produce outstanding results by making a positive difference in the world. Generally no one wants to be managed, but everyone wants to be led. A Positive leadership on the job will dictate happiness & success.
2. Mental Leadership
One of the hidden mysteries of success, certainly of leadership success, is the personal attitude of the leader & how the attitude is developed determines every aspect of their reputation & their legacy.
If the leader is looking to succeed & leave a legacy of achievements & accolade, then he should start thinking higher than the goals set & aspirations to uncover the way to make those aspirations a reality.
3. Resilient leadership
The Resilient Leadership is the capacity to bounce back from misfortune, disruptive change, and failure. Everyone experiences disappointments and set-backs in life. When these occur, the resilience factor is what gets back in the game and keeps pursuing the goals instead of becoming discouraged and giving up.
4. Reality Leadership
Every leader has flaws, but a successful leader can recognize them & keep them at a minimum. The reality leader will tackle their flaws in a different way than ordinary leaders. The extraordinary leader will seek a flaw into strength by creating an action plan for greater self discipline. Reality-Based Leaders anticipate future change, welcome it and then capitalize on the opportunity.
5. Coach Leadership
Leaders are not always responsible for the outcomes of their players, but they are always accountable for them. As a leader one of the biggest responsibilities is to coach & encourage people to succeed. Coach them to be excellent, coach them to score & coach them to win.
Leaders don’t leave their winners alone. They meet them. Challenge them. Encourage them. And collaborate with them to help them achieve at a higher level.
6. Situational Leadership
The strength & understanding to separate task from person & to identify how ready, willing & able each team member is to accept tasks enthusiastically & to always give & do their best.
7. Measurement Leadership
Not all leadership is clearly measured & not all the leaders want to be measured. The uncovered aspects of leadership, tasks & goals can be measured & should be measured, not just as a report card but to know the present capability.
8. Opportunity Leadership
You can’t change the things in the world, but you can change things in your world.
There are three kinds of people, people who make things happen, people who watch things happen & the people who don’t know what is happening. Opportunity Leadership is the strength to recognize ‘change’ as opportunity & the vision to take advantage of the situation.
9. Guts Leadership
Many leaders take long time to make decision & as a result, task productivity & overall achievements are hampered. The job of a leader is to decide right things at right time & move forward.
10. Personal Leadership
There is no Key to successful leadership. Leaders make the mistake of commanding respect when in fact respect is earned. Attitude is the fundamental element that creates a path for all the leaders to succeed, not just influence. The key to the successful leadership today is influence not authority. Leaders never tell what to do; they always show how it is done.
11. Celebration Leadership
The successful leader should have the strength to recognize, reward & celebrate performance, achievement & victory. One can measure the performance but one can never measure pride of achievements. No one can measure the motivation & inspiration to continue to achieve.
12. Next-Level Leadership
The lost secret of leadership is found in one word encouragement. The next level leadership always understands that every poor performance is an opportunity for encouragement. Every great performance is an opportunity to reward & celebrate.
12.5 Legacy Leadership
Legacy in leadership is not about leaving something behind. It is about influencing others enough to cause a positive change. Leaders don’t need to develop a legacy in a day. Great leaders create their own legacy day by day.
My Verdict
I have read many books on Leadership & most of the books rely on theory or philosophy but "The Little Book of Leadership" provides successful & practical methods for becoming a successful leader.
The book presents a very compelling strategy of seeing, thinking, and leading in a new way. This book is full of practical, pragmatic, actionable ideas and strategies. For those who want to develop the leadership skills, this book provides a framework to build better leaders. People want to know all about positive leadership will find pure gems in this book. It’s an absolute must-read for every leader, consultant or coach who works with leaders.
